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Source: Metalhammer.co.uk
Recently surfaced and seemingly verified online reports suggest that ex-MACHINE HEAD bassist Adam Duce is now suing his former band.

Adam, who was fired from the band back in February of last year, is suing his ex-bandmates on grounds of “trademark infringement, breach of partnership agreement and defamation“, according to a report by The Courthouse News Service.

The bassist is also said to have claimed that, despite all four members at the time sharing equal ownership of the band’s Head Machine Touring Inc corporate front, frontman Robb Flynn claimed the majority of the band’s touring profits.

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD recently began the process of searching for a temporary bassist for this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival in the U.S.

Commented the band’s guitarist/vocalist Robb Flynn: “[We’ve] got eight guys lined up so far — some ‘known’ guys, some dudes who are under the radar, [and] all have touring / stage experience. It’s exciting in some ways, and weird in others. I never thought I’d be going through this process again, and it fucks with my head from time to time. It’s just a fill-in slot for Mayhem, but these guys have to deliver on several levels. They got a bit of big shoe to fill; the dude who used to be onstage left was a presence, so we’re going to test these guys out musically, performance-wise, creatively, and see if there’s any kind of chemistry there.”

MACHINE HEAD in February parted ways with bassist Adam Duce. Flynn explained in an online posting: “We may have fired Adam on [February 11], but Adam quit MACHINE HEAD well over a decade ago. He just never bothered to tell anyone… but we all knew it.”

He added: “Adam hasn’t been happy in this band for a long time. But how do you leave? To a guy like Adam, everything is either winning or losing. A stunning victory or the ultimate failure. There was no in between … No matter how unhappy or fed up he got, quitting the band would be seen as ‘losing’ or a ‘failure.’ Truth be told, he was sick of it. Sick of touring, sick of recording, sick of practicing, sick of looking at album artwork, sick of being on a team but never getting the ball, sick of yearning for the honeymoon to resume when 20 years deep it never does. Sick of never quite hitting the big time, sick of carving the niche… sick of caring.”

“Machine Fucking Head Live”, the new live album from MACHINE HEAD, sold 3,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release. It’s the band’s second live effort; “Hellalive” came out in 2003.

MACHINE HEAD‘s most recent studio album, “Unto The Locust”, sold more than 17,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 22 on The Billboard 200 chart — putting MACHINE HEAD in the Top 25 for the first time in the band’s 17-year history.

“Machine Fucking Head Live” was recorded at various tour stops across the globe last year. It features songs from throughout the band’s expansive catalog, including crowd favorites like “Imperium”, “Aesthetics of Hate”, “Locust”, “Ten Ton Hammer”, “This is the End” and “Halo”.

“Machine Fucking Head Live” was mixed and mastered at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California by Juan Urteaga and Robb Flynn.

MACHINE HEAD is currently seeking a new label home following the expiration of the band’s contract with longtime record company Roadrunner Records.

San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD have parted ways with bassist Adam Duce. The split is said to be “amicable,” and MACHINE HEAD would like to wish Adam the best with his current and future endeavors. The band will continue on for the time being as a three-piece and has begun the writing process for the follow-up to 2011’s “Unto The Locust”. A late 2013 release is projected.

In a 2012 interview with Holland’s FaceCulture, Duce stated about whether he felt any pressure following up 2007’s “The Blackening”: “I’m doing this for fun. If it doesn’t work out and I don’t get to make money doing this anymore, fuck it. If it’s not fun, then I don’t wanna do it. I don’t expect to get rich doing this. I wanna have a good time and I wanna make some good music.”

He continued: “I had some issues with [the writing] process [for ‘Unto The Locust’]. I kind of took myself out of it until it was time to write my bass lines. I wrote a bunch of music, or riffs, that Robb [Flynn, guitar/vocals] didn’t have any idea what to do with vocally, and so he didn’t wanna use any of that. But more importantly, I wrote lyrics that meant a lot to me and I gave it to him. I’ve given him page after page after page of lyrics. And it usually comes back that way, [where] he’ll use a verse or a part of it or whatever — ‘I’m gonna take this part and put it down here.’ . . . whatever works for the cadence. But I got kind of burned on putting my soul out on a piece of paper and giving it to him and when I see it next time, there’s no remnants of what the original idea was. And I was just like, ‘You know what, dude?! I’m not giving you any more fucking lyrics, because I’m fucking sick of looking at this, the way that it fucking turns out.’ I said, ‘I’ll work on it with you at the same time, but I’m not giving you any more lyrics. I’m not giving you pages of lyrics.’ He was fucking angry at me for a while, but you know… that’s fucking what happens.”

Asked if he has ever thought about quitting the band, Adam said: “I’ve thought about quitting on different occasions, but I mean, Robb‘s thought about quitting on different occasions as well. Dave [McClain, drums] actually quit the band. I can safely say everybody’s thought about quitting at one point or another.”

Regarding whether he was happy with the things he could contribute to MACHINE HEAD, Adam said: “Well, I find what’s important to me and where is my freedom. ‘Cause that is what is important to me — the freedom aspect of it. Because making music is freedom to me. Probably [in] several different ways, because I wasn’t allowed to have it while I was actually locked up. And just the freedom to go wherever you want to, the freedom to get yourself out of the way and let the music flow. [I still feel that freedom within MACHINE HEAD] with my bass lines — that’s where I found it. And so when it’s me and her [laughs], that’s what I do here. That’s my freedom.”

Metal Hammer TV conducted an interview with bassist Adam Duce of San Francisco Bay Area metallers MACHINE HEAD earlier today (Friday, June 8) at the Download festival at Donington Park in Leicestershire, United Kingdom. You can now watch the chat below. Also available is a separate interview with Duce and MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel posted by the official DownloadYouTube channel.

As previously reported, MACHINE HEAD is the final act confirmed for this year’s Bloodstock Open Air festival, set to take place August 10-12 at Catton Hall in Walton On Trent, Derbyshire, England.

Fans will be given the unprecedented opportunity to influence MACHINE HEAD‘s setlist. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the band’s first-ever live performance at their roadie Mike “Scum”‘s getting-evicted-from-his-house party — for which they performed five songs — the band will give Bloodstockticket holders the opportunity to vote for the five “Burn My Eyes“ songs they most want to hear MACHINE HEAD play during their headline set Saturday night, with the five that receive the most votes included in the set list (details to follow).

MACHINE HEAD recently announced plans to film a video for the song ‘Darkness Within’ in the Czech Republic. The track comes off the band’s new album, “Unto The Locust”, which sold more than 17,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 22 on The Billboard 200 chart — putting MACHINE HEAD in the Top 25 for the first time in the band’s 17-year history.

MACHINE HEAD’s Robb Flynn And Adam Duce Visit Music Class In Oklahoma High School; Full Hour Of Video Footage Available

MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn and bassist Adam Duce visited Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Monday, February 13th and spoke to a music class for an hour, at the invitation of the teacher. The video footage below was shot by one of the students present.

The student commented on the video via YouTube: “They came to visit our school, Booker T. Washington High School, because our guitar teacher knew Adam Duce and I asked him to see if he could get at least Adam Duce to come to hang out. I could never believe that Robb Flynn would drop by with him as well! They played later on that night at the House Of Blues and I headbanged and moshed like none before at the concert!”

Roadrunnerrecords.com recently released a video where Flynn answers questions submitted by fans. Check out the video below: